The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1887-11-26

they were too high to get water on to
without some time and expense, and
time during the washing season here
is valuable. BY this time the river
had gone down again, and we then
prospected for river bars. We spent
two weeks thusly, having gone up the
river some 90 miles or more. We
found good pay on every point of
gravel; but we, like all the rest, were
looking for big pay, and passed bars
that would yield us from 81 to $40
per day. But that was no pay in the
! Yukon, although if we had gone right
to work OH them, and rocked steady,
we would have done better than to
have run around SO much prospecting
for big pay. We finally struck a bar
and set our rocker once again in mo-
ton. On this we had a strip of about
% feet of exposed gravel in length,
and near the center of the strip anoth-
er bowlder. But the bowlder had
sharp nose up stream, and consequently
not much room behind it in which
gold could lodge. But the whole
strip yielded fairly, and in 12 days
we rocked out about $500 more. Here
1t was the same as before. About
four feet back from running water the
gravel was frozen. and we could not
work it. 1t was now along about the
last of July, and as my provisions
were running short, concluded | had
better skip for the outside world. |
did no more prospecting, and, although
it Was about the middle of the work.
ing season. | began making prepara-
tions TO come out. Consequently
about the 1st of August, in company
with quite party, started.
During this season spent on the
Yuken, never enjoyed better health
in my life. Although | put in many
n day of extremely hard labor, espec-
tally in
POLLING UP THE STREAMS,
can speak in loud praise of the cli-
mate ON the Yukon. This assertion
may to some seem to be little over
drawn, bur il is nevertheless fact
that the heat there during July is all
but suffDcating, and /. bath in the river
during the heat of the day was quite
refreshing. The sun only takes about
40 winks of sleep, or something like
two or three hours during the longest
days. and it Is great wonder To me
that he has not succeeded better in
melting down that frozen country,
and no doubt would were it not for
the thick carpet of moss that covers
nearly the entire surface. A man GO
ing in, prepared to take advantage of
all obstacles. can rock about four
months out of twelve, and possibly
more.
THE MOUNTAIN RANGES
OF the interior arc very high, the peaks
running up like towers. had been
informed that to the west of Fort Re-
lance was mountain peak to all ap-
pcarances higher than Mount st. Elias,
but no bearings or altitude had ever
been taken of it. The peaks are
clothed in perpetual snow.
As to the mining outlook of the Yu-
kon country, with my limited explor-
ations of il, | think that no other
country on the globe has better
showing than it now has. That there
is
AN ABUNDANCE OF GOLD
There, is beyond question, as was
shown by the past seasons mining on
Forty-Mile creek. You have in for
mer issue stated that about 100000
were taken out. Now as to the cor
rectness of the statement l am not
prepared to judge very accurately, but
think it little high. But l do know
that if all who went in there had made
as we'll as myself, much larger
amount than the above estimate would
have been the seasons output. Some
took out considerable more than l did,
then again others did nothing what
ever. But this latter fact was not
owing to the scarcity of gold or gravel
bars, but rather to no work being done
by them. have seen men throw down
shovel and pan when they were max
ing all the way from SO to $25 per day
and strike out into the hills hunting,
or on tours of observation of the
country and prospecting for better
pay. In fact, |, myself, have left Sc
to $40 bars as though not worthy of
consideration. But where does all the